Imperfection Quotes
- “To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.” – John Ruskin
- “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí
- “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “I am, in fact, a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “To escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” – Conrad Hall
- “Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.” – Anne Lamott
- “Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen
- “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
- “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” – George Orwell
- “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Émile Zola
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.” – Eminem
- “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” – Anne Lamott
- “Perfection is the child of time.” – Joseph Hall
